Service Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Architecture Leverages Existing IT Investments
With each new advance in information technology, enterprises face the challenge of integrating old applications with new programs, old hardware with new systems, and old business processes with more efficient ones. Applications and systems in the past have suffered from too much rigidity – it has simply been too difficult to adapt old technology, so enterprises have adopted successive generations of incomplete solutions. The result is an accidental architecture that is incomplete, unresponsive and can even threaten the agility of the enterprise. In recent years the service oriented architecture has gained momentum as a solution to this problem. A service-based architecture approach allows the enterprise the flexibility of refashioning older information and processes as modular, standards-based service that can be easily reused and integrated with other technology. Progress Software offers innovative service infrastructure solutions that help enterprises transition to the service oriented architecture.
Progress Software Provides Service Oriented Architecture for Leading Enterprises
Progress Software offers a comprehensive selection of service infrastructure products to support the service oriented architecture. With Progress® Sonic ESB®, enterprises can simplify the process of integrating and reusing legacy business systems to better leverage their IT investment. This allows information and processes that may have once been hidden within purpose-built applications to be available across the enterprise. Progress' array of service oriented architecture solutions help enterprises better connect, mediate and control their applications and IT technology. With Progress, more than 1,000 organizations worldwide are able to achieve greater agility and return on investments while reducing the costs of IT integration.
Superior Service Oriented Architecture Realigns IT with Business Needs
Using service infrastructure solutions from Progress, enterprises employing service oriented architecture can more easily bring IT initiatives and resources into alignment with the overall needs of the organization. Enterprises achieve greater flexibility by enabling broad-scale connectivity and interoperability between applications. By recreating applications and systems as modular and reusable business components, enterprises make IT more available to solve problems throughout the organization. By reusing existing applications, enterprises minimize the cost of custom software development. And by reducing integration costs as well as vendor lock-in and switching costs, service oriented architecture enables the enterprise to realize a greater return on IT investments.
Progress provides a range of service infrastructure products, including application integration, business process management software, enterprise information integration, infrastructure software, messaging middleware and QoS management.
